Karin Janssen Project Space archive

Karin Janssen Project Space is an independent exhibition space, founded in 2011 in London, run and programmed by Dutch artist Karin Janssen. In 2015 Janssen relocated to Shanghai to focus on her own art practice, and the project space has since been closed.

Karin Janssen Project Space provided a platform for international emerging and established artists. In recent years Karin had developed a curatorial practice that was closely linked to her practice as an artist.

CHINESE WHISPERS6 - 23 November 2014

Twenty-five artist from the Netherlands and twenty-four from the UK played a game of Chinese Whispers. Each artist reacted on the previous artist’s work without knowing what the rest of the series looked like.Click here to read and see more >>

Relishing in the gloomy, decadent beauty of decay, this exhibition brings together five international artists with very individual approaches to the Vanitas theme. The Vanitas tradition became popular in the Netherlands during the seventeenth century, featuring dramatic still life paintings symbolising the transitory nature of earthly pleasures. “Mortal life is fleeting”, they declared, “whereas the afterlife is never-ending.” The artists in this show explore the subject in a contemporary context, engaging the viewer with highly expressive and accomplished work.Click here to read and see more >>

Bringing together the work of five contemporary artists RAW SKIN investigates the body in visual arts, but rather than approaching as an observer, viewing it as an object from the outside, the show aims to look at the body as a vehicle for expression of an internal emotional world. Read more >>

GET CARTA brings together eight contemporary artists linked by their use of mapping in their varied practices concerned with social, political and cultural structures. Click here to read and see more >>

Hung, Drawn and Altered: Drawn In looks at the practice of drawing in its broadest application, from pencil drawings to sculpture and video, while 'drawing the viewer in', as the title suggests, to interrogate what might be interpreted as 'drawing'. Rather than defining the process of drawing, Hung, Drawn and Altered: Drawn In investigates this notion through the practices of five contemporary artists.Click here to read and see more >>

Press coverage

Guardian Guide

SPEED NETWORKING FOR ARTISTSVarious events during 2012 - 2013

Speed Networking provides a platform where artists can network with their peer group face to face. Although artists need critics, curators, collectors and galleries, for an artist peer recognition is the foundation of their practice. Feedback and support from colleagues is vital. Karin Janssen Project Space provides a platform where artists can talk with each other face to face, make connections and share ideas. Speed Networking offers a structured yet informal way to develop your artistic career through fellow artists.

WELL SONIC & WELL SECRET10 May - 8 July 2011Artist in residence Anna Lopez

During her residency Lopez stimulated the local public to give their personal - and sometimes subconscious - contributions to create a new body of work. The aim of the residency was to investigate possible ways of dialogue and engagement between the newly opened art space and the established local community. Lopez played with residents, provoking them to stop and see their street and its characters in a different way.

The exhibition brings together 18 artists, not all of them ‘local’, to present works that reflect locality and invite the viewer to think about what local means to them.Click here to read and see more >>